Game recap, highlights, and stats to know | Bills 24, Bucs 18

Josh Allen remains unbeaten on Thursday Night Football, as the quarterback led the Buffalo Bills to a 24- 18 palm over the Tampa Bay rovers.

Allen completed 78 percent of his passes on his way to 324 passing yards and two touchdowns. He threw an interception after his pass was sloped shortly after the release.

In addition to his work in the air, Allen tallied 41 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown on seven carries. Allen was quick to use his bases when he’d to, sliding when necessary to avoid contact.

novitiate tight end Dalton Kincaid was the only active tight end on the game day canon as Dawson Knox and Quintin Morris both recover from injuries. Kincaid finished with five receptions for 65 yards and a touchdown, the first of his career.
Late in the alternate quarter, Allen took the snap at the Tampa Bay 22- yard line and rolled right, chancing Kincaid who sped past his protector to the end zone. Holding on to the ball that will probably have a place on Kincaid’s mantle, the 24- time-old outstretched his arms before springing into the daises to celebrate his first score as a pro.

In the three games before Thursday night, the Bills offense scored a combined 10 points in the first halves. Thursday, they scored 17. A week after missing two field thing attempts, Tyler Bass drilled a 37- yarder to put Buffalo in the lead after their first drive. Buffalo noway traced after that score.

The Bills defense and special brigades units were effective in containing Baker Mayfield and the rovers offense in the first half. After making their way into Buffalo home in their alternate drive of the game, protective end Shaq Lawson sloped Chase McLauglin’s field thing attempt to keep the Bucs off the scoreboard.

After not chancing the end zone in the first quarter, the Bills offense got hot in the alternate quarter. In the red zone, Allen had a big hole open up from the Tampa Bay 13- yard line and the QB decided to keep it himself for a TD run. It marked his fifth rushing TD of the time.

As Mayfield began to toast up for the Bucs, he set up receiver Chris Godwin for a big gain to set up a 57- yard field thing, which McLaughlin was suitable to knock through the posts for Tampa Bay’s first points of the game to make it 10- 3.

After Allen’s interception, Mayfield took just two plays before throwing a touchdown pass to Godwin, who made an emotional catch to tie the game before Kincaid’s touchdown gave Buffalo the lead back at halftime.

Allen went right back to Kincaid to begin the third quarter, chancing him for an 18- yard gain on the offenses’ first play. Allen led an effective 9- play drive that ended in a quick pass to Gabe Davis for a touchdown that would be their last of the day.
Six successive punts followed, with each platoon floundering to put together scoring drives. Bills punter Sam Martin landed three of his four punts inside the 10- yard line, with two of them downed within the 5- yard line.

His final punt bounced up and Cam Lewis made a nice play in an attempt to down the ball, but it rolled into the end zone for a touchback.

Tampa Bay hovered Buffalo’s lead late in the game after a long drive ended in a touchdown catch from Mike Evans and a successful two- point conversion. After Buffalo was forced to punt, Mayfield drove the Bucs to their own 45- yard line, where they tried a Hail Mary.

As a cluster of Bills protectors and Bucs receivers leapt for the ball, it fell onto the blue turf of the Bills end zone and the game was over.

The Bills ameliorate to 5- 3 on the season, and will travel to Cincinnati coming Sunday where they will face the Bengals at 820p.m.

With his 3 total touchdowns in Thursday’s palm, Josh Allen is now tied with quarterback Dan Marino for thesecond-most touchdowns in a player’s first six seasons with 199. Only Patrick Mahomes( 204) has further.
Allen’s rushing touchdown was the 43rd of his career, tied with Steve Young for thesecond-most by an NFL quarterback. Cam Newton leads all quarterbacks with 75.
Allen is now 6- 0 on Thursday games in his career. Mayfield was preliminarily undefeated on Thursday Night Football before the rovers’ loss tonight.
Dalton Kincaid was a major part of the Bills’ end game, racking up 65 yards. Kincaid has caught 30- of- 34 targets this season, the loftiest catch rate among any novitiate and the sixth-loftiest overall in the NFL.

Ed Oliver’s alternate quarter sack tied his particular season-high, which he set in 2019. The Bills protective attack reckoned for two total tackles after missing last week with a toe injury.
Including his pass to Kincaid, Allen has thrown 18 passing TDs on scrambles outside the attack box to the right side of the conformation since 2020, utmost in the NFL in that span.
Gabe Davis’ nine receptions were good for a career high for the fourth- time receiver. His former high was six, which he’d done three times.
SCORING PLAYS
804 1Q| BUF 3 TB 0| Tyler Bass 37- yard field thing is GOOD

1103 2Q| BUF 10 TB 0| Josh Allen up the middle for 13 yards, TOUCHDOWN

740 2Q| BUF 10 TB 3| Chase McLaughlin 57- yard field thing is GOOD

646 2Q| BUF 10 TB 10| Baker Mayfield pass short middle to Chris Godwin for 3 yards, TOUCHDOWN

240 2Q| BUF 17 TB 10| Josh Allen pass short right to Dalton Kincaid for 22- yards, TOUCHDOWN

1040 3Q| BUF 24 TB 10| Josh Allen pass short left wing to Gabe Davis for 4 yards, TOUCHDOWN

244 4Q| BUF 24 TB 17| Baker Mayfield pass deep left to Mike Evans for 24 yards, TOUCHDOWN. Baker Mayfield pass to Cade Otten is complete, two- point conversion is GOOD